New Zealand will field at least one player with a broken finger as their World Cup campaign begins against England today at Beausejour.

All-rounder Jacob Oram will take part with a micro-light splint on his hand, while Peter Fulton is also in the selection shake-up.

With Craig McMillan allaying fears over his bruised toe by coming through batting and fielding practice yesterday, New Zealand's management must decide who to leave out.

The final place will depend on whether Jeetan Patel is called in as a second spinner.

If he is, then one of McMillan, who struck a hundred in his last one-day international against Australia last month, Fulton or Scott Styris will miss out.

McMillan and Styris both offer controlled medium pace, which could be handy on a slow surface.

''Whether we can fit both of them in, with the spinners as well, could be a bit of a logjam,'' said captain Stephen Fleming.

''When you question who is going to be most effective it may not be the second spinner but the guys rolling their fingers over the ball.

''Tactically we have to make a decision on what we think will be most effective.''

With teams carrying the points earned against fellow qualifiers through to the Super Eight stage, there is incentive to go for the victory, and Fleming also has revenge in mind after England progressed to the Commonwealth Bank Series finals at the Black Caps' expense.

''It's a big game first up, that's been identified and we've been aiming for this for some time,'' he said.

Teams - England (from): MP Vaughan (Yorkshire, capt), EC Joyce (Middlesex), IR Bell (Warwickshire), KP Pietersen (Hampshire), PD Collingwood (Durham), A Flintoff (Lancashire), JM Dalrymple (Middlesex), PA Nixon (Leicestershire, wkt), LE Plunkett (Durham), J Lewis (Gloucestershire), JM Anderson (Lancashire), MS Panesar (Northamptonshire).

New Zealand (from): SP Fleming (capt), L Vincent, RL Taylor, SB Styris, PG Fulton, CD McMillan, JDP Oram, BB McCullum (wkt), DL Vettori, JS Patel, JEC Franklin, SE Bond.